At the Foundling Hospital<\/em>.<\/p>\nWhy this book matters: <\/strong>Pinsky writes: “Like William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri, the Chinese poet Li Bai (701-762 A.D.) is a world figure whose work has endured for centuries and inspired poets in every language.\u00a0The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai, <\/i>as well as being a readable, critically informative biography, contains Ha Jin\u2019s lucid, graceful translations of much of Li Bai\u2019s poetry. This book about a supreme figure and his poetry combines biography, historical insight and critical insight with translation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/cas\/files\/2021\/05\/Salt-Water-Pla-150x150.jpg\")
Book title: <\/strong>Aigua de Mar (Salt Water)<\/p>\nAuthor: <\/strong>Josep Pla<\/p>\nTranslated by: <\/strong>Peter Bush<\/p>\nPublished in: <\/strong>1966 (translation in 2020)<\/p>\nRecommended by: <\/strong>Christopher Maurer, professor of Spanish, an editor and translator of poetry, correspondence, essays and lectures related to poetry. He has translated <\/span>The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work<\/em> by Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez and Sebastian\u2019s Arrows: Letters and Mementos<\/em> by Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca and Salvador Dal\u00ed.<\/p>\nWhy this book matters: <\/strong>Maurer writes: “In Salt Water<\/em>, Josep Pla (1897-1981) a great writer neglected on this side of the Atlantic (perhaps because he wrote much of his work in Catalan rather than Spanish) meanders along the coast north of Barcelona describing in unhurried detail all sorts of ocean lure, from coral diving to smuggling to the habits of seagulls to what one expects from a good fish soup. As Colm T\u00f3b\u00edn put it, Pla is ‘a great noticer of things and places.’ Peter Bush’s translation is a virtuoso performance, and the book itself is a well-made object worthy of both of them.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/cas\/files\/2021\/05\/Daphnis-and-Chloe-150x150.png\")
Book title: <\/strong>Daphnis and Chloe<\/p>\nAuthor: <\/strong>Longus<\/p>\nTranslated by: <\/strong>Jeffrey Henderson, William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature in BU Arts & Sciences<\/p>\nPublished in: <\/strong>second century C.E. (Common Era) (translation in 2003)<\/p>\nRecommended by: <\/strong>Stephen Scully, chair of Classical studies, author of many books including a translation of Plato\u2019s Phaedrus.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nWhy this book matters: <\/strong>Scully writes: “One of our earliest novels and among the great works of world literature: an innocent boy and girl gradually discover their sexuality in an idealized pastoral environment. Goethe recommended re-reading it every year ‘to sense freshly its great beauty.’ This translation includes the Greek on the facing page.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/cas\/files\/2021\/05\/Fleeting-Rome-150x150.jpg\")
Book title: <\/strong>Roma fuggitiva: una citt\u00e0\u00a0e i suoi dintorni (Fleeting Rome: In Search of La Dolce Vita)<\/p>\nAuthor: <\/strong>Carlo Levi<\/p>\nTranslated by: <\/strong>Tony Shugaar<\/p>\nPublished in: <\/strong>2002 (translation in 2004)<\/p>\nRecommended by: <\/strong>Karl Kirchwey, professor of English and creative writing and associate dean of faculty for the humanities, translator of poetry into English from French, Italian, German and Spanish and author of Poems Under Saturn, <\/i>a translation of Paul Verlaine\u2019s\u00a0Po\u00e8mes saturniens<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\nWhy this book matters: <\/strong>Kirchwey writes: “This is a posthumous collection of writings about Rome by Carlo Levi (1902-1975), the famous Italian doctor, painter and author of works such as\u00a0<\/span>Christ Stopped at Eboli<\/i>. Although Levi himself was born in Turin, in northern Italy, this sharp-eyed set of essays (many of them written for newspaper publication) captures the spirit of the Eternal City in the period between the end of World War II and the rise of student movements in the 1960s as no other book I know of manages to do, bringing to life a city full of ‘magical realism’ and immortal moments that will revolutionize any visitor\u2019s perception of Rome.”<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/cas\/files\/2021\/05\/my-husbands-woman-150x150.jpeg\")
Book title: <\/strong>La mujer de mi marido (My Husband’s Woman)<\/p>\nAuthor: <\/strong>Alicia Borinsky, BU Arts & Sciences professor of Spanish<\/span><\/p>\nTranslated by: <\/strong>Natasha Hakimi Zapata and Alicia Borinsky<\/span><\/p>\nPublished in: <\/strong>2000 (translation in 2016)<\/p>\nRecommended by: <\/strong>Anita Savo, assistant professor of Spanish, expert on medieval Spanish literature and occasional translator from Spanish to English.<\/span><\/p>\nWhy this book matters: <\/strong>Savo writes: “The poetry collection\u00a0<\/span>La mujer de mi marido\u00a0<\/span><\/i>by BU professor Alicia Borinsky is available in a bilingual edition prepared by the author together with translator Natasha Hakimi Zapata, who earned an MFA in creative writing from BU. Many of the poems are about sex, love, and desire, expressed in punchy language that evokes\u00a0<\/span>lunfardo<\/i>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>the slang of Borinsky’s native Buenos Aires. One section, called ‘manual de piropos’ or ‘manual of pick-up lines,’ places the aggressive but familiar language of catcalls in juxtapositions that are surprising and often laugh-out-loud funny. The English translation is equally vivid, and the bilingual edition is great for readers interested in seeing the Spanish and English side by side.”<\/span><\/p>\nMore Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This summer, enjoy one of these translated literary masterpieces recommended by Arts & Sciences faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3521,"featured_media":55704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[195],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55703"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55931,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703\/revisions\/55931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Book title: <\/strong>The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai<\/p>\n